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Hello Jasen - 

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CA>> With one gig or more of memory why would you _need_ swap.
CA>> Swap is a poor man's additional memory remember? 

JB> If you can buy a CPU twice the speed (or twice as many)
JB> with the money you save on ram swap can be good. 

Possibly. But at some point you lose the option to double CPU
speed. 

CA>>>> I for one won't miss the mechanical hard drives one bit. 

JB> given the trends in reliability neither will I 

CA>> The fans are annoying as a form of obligatory 'white
CA>> noise'. Try watching TV with 4 computers turned on. You
CA>> need much more volume from the TV to understand speech. 

JB> a 16" hard drive isn't quiet either.... 

Mainframe? 

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